Subgenre Sampler
Spy: 298 Films to Buy & Rent
Chuck (TV Series) (2007-2008)
- Feat. Zachary Levi, Adam Baldwin
- Affable action series centred on a computer geek recruited into the CIA after inadvertently downloading top–secret government secrets onto his…
Debt, The (Ha Hov) (2007)
- Dir. Assaf Bernstein
Feat. Gila Almagor, Yuriy Chepurnov, Oleg Drach
- Unsettling thriller with a retired Mossad agent, whose Nazi–hunting past comes back to haunt her and her fellow agents.
Joy Division (2007)
- Dir. Reg Traviss
Feat. Ed Stoppard, Tom Schilling, Bernadette Heerwagen…
- Ed Stoppard, son of Sir Tom, stars as a young German boy who becomes a KGB agent in this ambitious wartime saga that sweeps from WWII to swinging,…
Spooks - Season 6 (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Rupert Penry-Jones, Peter Firth, Hermione Norris…
- Further episodes from the British MI5 spy suspense series, in which agents try to resolve a variety of 21st century threats.
Series Six: 10…
T3I: Three Investigators, The (The Secret of Skeleton Island, The Secret of Terror Castle) (2007)
- Feat. Chancellor Miller, Nick Price, Cameron Monaghan
- A pair of good–looking family flicks based on a popular US book franchise sees 'Jupiter Jones' and his fellow Californian teenagers investigate…
Casino Royale (2006)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Eva Green…
- The James Bond franchise finds a new face, goes back to the very beginning, and rediscovers its mojo, with new Bond Daniel Craig and Kiwi dir. Martin…
Few Days in September, A (Quelques jours en septembre) (2006)
- Dir. Santiago Amigorena
Feat. Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Nick Nolte…
- Pre–September 11 spy–thriller dramatising events leading up to the fatal terrorist attack, with former spy (Binoche) being stalked…
Good Shepherd, The (2006)
- Dir. Robert De Niro
Feat. Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro…
- Robert De Niro directs this dramatization of the CIA’s clandestine origins, with Matt Damon in the central role of a colourless career…
Mission: Impossible 3 (2006)
- Dir. J.J. Abrams
Feat. Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Keri Russell…
- Propulsive and hyper–violent third outing for Tom Cruise as US superagent Ethan Hunt, here on a globe–jetting mission to foil a vile…
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
- Dir. Michel Hazanavicius
Feat. Jean Dujardin
- Dusting off a little–known French spy spoof from the 1960's, this remake upgrades rather than updates the franchise, combining the Bond school…